On 11/6/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The option of "safely remove" for removing pen drives is not working > > properly here. To safely remove my pen drive I have to use the command > > line through the command 'umount /dev/sda1'. Any ideas how to repair > > that? > > Do you wait for the pendrive icon vanishes from desktop or konqueror after > clicking "safely remove"? It may take some time to flush the pending data > write operations to the pendrive. It's safe to remove it only when the it's > icon disappear (i.e., when it's automatically unmounted). ---- that was it...OP has stated that it wasn't being automatically mounted but rather a forced mount via entry in fstab
False: the problem was detected while automount option active. To circumvent the problem, I then forced mount via entry in fstab. Paul
